Often we look for God’s will as thought it’s in one room among many. We think that we must find that room and enter the door so that we can know we are “in” God’s will. The assumption is that once we are safely inside the door of God’s will we are where he wants us. Usually the room has to do with circumstances or vocation. We want to know if it is God’s will that we get some particular job, or have another child, get married, or buy a house. Indeed these are matters for discernment, prayer, and seeking God’s will. But we often forfeit practicing God’s revealed will and purpose that most importantly we become like Christ, that we take on his character, that we practicing becoming more like him even, and perhaps especially, in times of choice and change.

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